Resources for 'Othello'

 Here are some resources for teachers and pupils of Othello:

• The Othello 2020 project from Red Bull Theater in New York was ‘a multi-part initiative of Red Bull Theater to provide an engaging and educational experience for all who are interested in Shakespeare’s Othello and and its relationship to the world in which we live today … [and] is seeking to deepen our exploration and understanding of the intersection of race and classical theater.’ Particularly recommended is a detailed exploration of Iago’s psychopathy by the actor Patrick Page.
• Patrick Huff has a fine Twitter thread here, drawing together some resources, and a YouTube playlist.
• INOTE has started English podcasts, including two on Othello (so far) here.
• An excellent talk by Arielle Battice-Wedderburn at the 2020 Team English conference: ‘Othello & historical ideas of blackness’ (her slides are here).
• The first podcast in Emma Smith’s Oxford University lecture series is on Othello, and of course the chapter on her book This is Shakespeare is essential reading (my notes on the Othello chapter).
• As usual, the British Library resources are worth looking at: articles, items from the collection (including the Cinthio source).
• The BBC’s Shakespeare Sessions has a full-length audio version, and discussions by Islam Issa (‘What it means to be a Moor’) and Hugh Quarshie (‘Looking for the Moor’: is the play racist?).
• A Folger Shakespeare discussion on ‘Othello and blackface’: there’s also a transcript.
• Ayanna Thompson in a Bloomsbury podcast on the play: she wrote the introduction for the revised Arden3 edition. This discussion has a particularly strong focus on race.